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Dubliners

Average rating

4 out of 5

Based on 142 Ratings and 142 Reviews

Book Description

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossr... More

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.

To me, this is Joyce's masterpiece and the only work of his worth re-reading or maybe even reading in the first place. I'm no fan of Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake which I think are both highly over-rated and pretentious. Dubliners is a series of short stories about people living in Dublin, Ireland in t... more

To me, this is Joyce's masterpiece and the only work of his worth re-reading or maybe even reading in the first place. I'm no fan of Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake which I think are both highly over-rated and pretentious. Dubliners is a series of short stories about people living in Dublin, Ireland in the early 20th century but it's a timeless work and one can relate to and understand every character one meets in the pages. My favorite piece is the last one, The Dead, which I think is one of the greatest stories written in any language anywhere at any time in the history of the world.